Monday, October 24, 6-9pm:Where: The Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall

What’s Happening? (1967, 44 min.)

A documentary about the Beat and Pop Art Generation, a portrait of America seen through the eyes of artists and intellectuals who were about to revolutionize the international artistic panorama. Allen Ginsberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregory Corso, and others;

Seize the Time (1970, 90 min)

A movie featuring the Black Panthers. It brings together drama, fiction cinema and documentary cinema.

Tuesday, October 25, 3-6pm:
340 Stephens Hall

Dissent (1968, 47 min.)

A documentary showing the hot climate of social unrest that beset the whole of American society in the 1960s. The campesinos protest, Berkeley and La Jolla students confronted by police, the revolt of the inner city ghettos, the defiance of the Vietnam War draft, Robert Kennedy’s last public speech;

The conference is co-organized and co-sponsored by The Program for the Study of Italy of theUC Berkeley Institute of European Studies and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, in collaboration with the Italian Society at Berkeley and the Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico of Rome, Italy, and with support from the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley.